DVD Plays on computer but not home player

[Michael83815]

I don't understand my problem the video are mpeg2 at varible 8000 dolby digital audio after burning the DVD it plays fine on my computer but my DVD player says "no disk" I have other disks that I have burned that play, but they are at a constant bit rate of 4000 and audio is LPCM.

So my question is is it the dolby or the varible bit rate causing the problem?

[Ken Berry]

... or the player itself. If yours is a well known brand and was moderately expensive to expensive, then chances are it will be picky about any home made discs. We are developing a theory around here: the more expensive the player, the less it will play. The cheap, Chinese brands, on the other hand, seem to play almost anything you throw at them.

Some of the expensive ones have difficulty with higher bitrates -- could you make another copy, on an RW disc to avoid wastage, but use 7000 kbps at the max bitrate, and see if that makes a difference? Have you tried testing the disc on a friend's player? Did you burn the disc at maximum speed> -- If so, try another RW burned at a lower speed (I only use 4x, even on 12x discs). Doby has been known to cause a problem, but it depends on what bandwidth you use. Again, in your experimenting as suggested above, you could use MPEG layer 2 or LPCM audio and see what happens.

But I am afraid I have to add, welcome to the wonderful word of home made discs!

[Michael83815]

The Audio rate is 256 I'll have to buy some dvd+rw I only have dvd-r and dvd+r right now. I hate rerendering these avi's it took about 4 hours. but here I go.

[heinz-oz]

There is no other way about it, AVI's need to be rendered to mpeg2 for DVD.

Before you invest in a lot of RW disks, make sure your player will play these. I also found the -R/RW variety more compatible with stand alone players then the +R/RW. It all depends, out of my three players, the cheapest plays the most variants but no RW's, the most expensive doesn't play any +R/RW's and the mid range one only has a problem with SVCD's.

[DVDDoug]

The really bad news is, that some players can't play "burned" DVDs at all ! Do you have the owner's manual for your DVD player? Even if you have to experiment, you can find out what formats, if any, work on your player. But, you make a DVD for someone else, you never know if they can play it.

I'll have to buy some dvd+rw I only have dvd-r and dvd+r right now..

Have you tried both the +R and -R formats? According to DigitalFAQ.com, You'll have the best odds with DVD-R, but you may have to try them all.

I hate rerendering these avi's it took about 4 hours.

As you experiment, you can cut-down on the rendering time by copying a known-good DVD (one that plays on the computer) to the other formats.

[Michael83815]

I bought this player because it is compatible with all formats dvd-r dvd+r and so on. I will buy some dvd+rw disks and find out if it's the dolby(ac3) causing the problem or bit rate of 8000. I hope it's not the dolby.

[DGV]

Guys, for a complete listing of (just about) all DVD players and what they will and wont play, go to www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers

I run my own conversion and editing business and i use this giude, based on what the customer owns, to decide what disc type to burn to.

Cheers
Dain.

[San_kev]

I had the same problem, I have 2 DVD players, one expensive (Samsung) the other one really cheap (I'm @ work right now, so I don't remember the brand/name).
The chip one plays ANY DVD that I burned, I was using DVD media like: Ridata, HP, Generic, SmartBuy, Maxell, TDK, Sony… almost any DVD in the market. Most of them even in the cheap DVD player couldn't even read the media, the Samsung DVD… forget it!!! Never read any of them… until I found a Unifino DVD-R / DVD+R (Japanese, a little bit hard to find in stores ), and this media is the only one that my Samsung player reads with out any problem: Movies, music, graphics…
So since then, any project that I've done with VS9 I burn it using Unifino DVD-R, or Sony (for better quality: Unifino ).

So, just try to see which DVD media is the best for you.

SanKev

[Michael83815]

We'll my problem turned out to be bit rate 8000 is to high 7000 works and dolby digital works yeah!